Defense: 9

Utility: 0

Introduction

Hello people! Welcome to my first guide on MobaFire :D This guide is about Aatrox, The Darkin Blade. Aatrox is a melee ad carry that uses health to cast abilities. To counter this, His W, Blood Thirst / Blood Price, heals him when Blood Thirst is active. This heal heals 200% more when Aatrox is under half health. Aatrox has tons of sustain in any stage of the game. Thats what makes him fun. Anyways, welcome to my first guide and I hope you enjoy this :D Here is the champion spotlight of Aatrox by Riot to inform you about Aatrox!IM BLACK !!

Pros / Cons

Pros

Cons

- Uses HP to cast spells- Countered hard by blind- Easily bursted down- Will get focused- Can be locked down with CC- Slow is hard to land

Runes

Runes

Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage3

Greater Mark of Attack Speed4

Greater Mark of Attack Damage5

Greater Seal of Armor9

Greater Glyph of Magic Resist9

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Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage: Attack damage is something that any AD melee carry needs the most. Without attack damage, your auto attack will do nothing for the enemy. Which really sucks...BLACK

Greater Mark of Attack Speed: Aatrox deal more damage with more attack speed. His W [blood thirst / blood price] also deals/heals more the more attack speed you have because it only heals/deals damage every third attack you deal.BLACK

Greater Mark of Attack Damage: Attack damage is something that any AD melee carry needs the most. Without attack damage, your auto attack will do nothing for the enemy. Which really sucks...BLACK

Greater Seal of Armor: Aatrox is naked so he needs some cloths! Buy some armor! Armor protects you and people deal less physical attack damage! Best thing on the world for Aatrox :DBLACK

Greater Glyph of Magic Resist: Magic resist counter all of the AP carrys. They deal less damage to you. Magic Resist is very important in term of defense.

Skill Sequence/Explanation

Blood well: Whenever Aatrox uses an ability that costs health, he stores 100% of the health cost into his Blood Well. The maximum amount of health the Blood Well can store is equal to 30 + (45 x level). If Aatrox has not dealt or received damage in the last 5 seconds, his Blood Well will deplete at a rate of 2% per second.

Upon taking fatal damage, Blood Well activates and places Aatrox in stasis for 3 seconds. Over the stasis duration the Blood Well is emptied and Aatrox restores health equal to its contents plus 10.5 + (15.75 x level). Blood Well's activation has a static cooldown and is unaffected by cooldown reduction.

Also, Aatrox passively increases his attack speed by 1% for every 2% in the Blood Well.

Dark flight: Aatrox takes flight and slams down at a targeted location, dealing 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 60% bonus AD) physical damage in a large area. Enemies in the center of the blast are also knocked up for 1 second.

Difficulty : 2/10

Darius is somewhat hard to play against. Keep forcing Darius out of the minion wave so that he can't hit level 6, never let him get any farm. His passive hurts alot so be careful. Call for an early gank.

Difficulty : 6/10

Elise has a very strong poke ability. She can poke you anytime. She can also transform into a spider to use her other ability. She excels at both role as a mage or a fighter. Make sure to dodge her Cocoon so that you can fight with her with your full power.

Fight with Elisewhen she misses her Cocoon. That way, she will have no CC to stop you from healing and dealing damage.

Try to fight her without any minions on your side, she can easily juke you with her Rappel.

Difficulty : 6/10

Try not to 1v1 Fiora when she has her Blade Waltz up and you don't have your passive, Blade Waltz deals crazy single target damage MAX SINGLE-TARGET DAMAGE: 320 / 660 / 1000 (+ 240% bonus AD), So wait for your Blood Well to come back up, then fight her

Difficulty : 5/10

Sustain his pokes by using Blood Thirst on minions. Engage on him when he has no mana to eat his oranges. Why? because oranges removes CC, and his Raise Morale gives him a passive speed buff, which made him impossible to chase without your slow from Blades of Torment

Back off when Gangplank becomes aggressive because he can't win you after level 4. Possible ganks incoming when he trys to fight you.

Difficulty : 7/10

Garen is a very tanky top laner. He also has tons of sustain due to his passive, Perseverance. You can not trade with him until mid - late game. Garen = SPIN TO WIN

Farm under turrets, if you pick a fight with Garen, he will just Q + SPIN + Ult you. If you have your Blood Well up, feel free to take a risk to trade or kill him.

Don't mess with Garen, he will DEMACIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA you down like what he does everytime to Soraka.

Lane Match Up I-Q

Difficulty : 5/10

Irelia is not a counter to Aatrox however she still can beat Aatrox due to her +HP per hit passive and has a stunn. Irelia will try not to pick fights before she is lvl 4.

Aatrox has the advantage of revive, however, Irelia has the advantage of stunn and true damage. This is a skill match up!

Do not fight with Irelia unless you are sure that you will get that kill, high risk, high reward.

Difficulty : 9/10

Jax is a counter to most top laners who does damage with basic attacks such as Master Yi, Fiora, and of course. Aatrox. The main reason why Jax counters them is because of his Counter Strike, he can dodge your basic attacks while doing damage to you.

Bait his Counter Strike by jumping on Jax then simply leaves. If he Leap Strike to you, his dodge might only have a 1 sec duration left. Simply fight with him.

Jax's damage is way different between pre 6 and post 6. If you can, try to deny his farm, don't take risk, because he can easily kill you.

Warding

Warding is every important because it gives you great map awareness and helps you to escape ganks. Even though you are not a support or Lee Sin, warding is important. Always buy atleast 1 ward every time you back to base. Ward in the bush as much as possible because you never know whats in it.

Below is a warding map that I made by myself. The map key is below the map.

Green = Sight ward sight wardRed = Vision ward

DO NOT ward before 3 minute, unless the enemy team jungler is fast junglers like Shyvana or Udyr. Think about camping their red and take first blood if their jungler is low sustain junglers like Evelynn. Take a look at Hahano's guide about junglers! It really helps you if you are a laner OR a jungler.

Summary

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Conclusion

Aatrox is a really fun champion to play. The first time I played Aatrox, I decided to make him my main :D. Hope you learned atleast something from this guide and thanks for reading!

Special thanks to Making A Guide by jhoijhoi. which you can find here.

Special thanks to whoever has helped me during the making of this guide.

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